Live feed of terror attack:
- Shooting during a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach
- Two gunmen opened fire, discharging dozens of rounds
- The two shooters are father and son
- A bystander intervened and disarmed one attacker
- 16 people confirmed dead including a 10-year-old kid (New South Wales Minister says via AFP)
- 38 others wounded, several critically (via AP)
- One suspect was killed; another is in critical condition
- Police are examining a possible IED connection
- Deadliest Australian shooting since 1996
- 24-year-old Naveed Akram was identified as one of the suspected gunmen
- Israel says “blood of the victims is on the hands of the Australian government”
Incident Location:
Dramatic footage.
New video shows one of the Bondi Beach terrorists taking shots at a Jewish man who refuses to take cover and stands up pointing his finger at him pic.twitter.com/BKEENNa03X— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) December 14, 2025
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Update (1440ET):
Police say 14 people died at the scene and another two people, including the 10-year-old girl and a 40-year-old man have since died in hospital.
Those who died are yet to be formally identified; however, NSW Premier Chris Minns said the victims range in age from as young as 10 to 87.
“A devastating fact,” he told reporters.
Three other children are being treated in hospital, he said.
“The offenders are a 50-year-old and 24-year-old male, who are father and son. The 50-year-old is deceased,” NSW Police commissioner Mal Layon told reporters.
The father had a gun license for 10 years.
The shooting was a “targeted attack” on the Jewish community, with one of the gunmen dead and a second in critical condition in the hospital, according to New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon.
Financial Review reports that Israel has accused the Australian government of having blood on its hands for the Bondi Beach terror attack, as world leaders condemned the deadliest day of violence targeting Jews since the October 7 terror attack in southern Israel two years ago.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had warned Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in August that his decision to recognise Palestinian statehood poured “fuel on the antisemitic fire”, as he labelled the killing of 11 victims celebrating the start of Hanukkah as “cold-blooded murder”.
Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry went as far as to claim the “blood of the victims is on the hands of the Australian government” because it had not stood with Israel against jihadist terrorism, instead choosing a “policy of weakness, restraint, and appeasement”.
“This reckless policy has direct consequences at home within Australia itself,” the ministry said in a statement.
“The Australian government is doing everything in its power to ensure that Australian Jews cannot live safely, peacefully, and securely as Jews in their own country.
“The result is unmistakable. When Jews gather to celebrate a Jewish holiday and light a candle, they are met with murderous violence and terror.”
US President Donald Trump later extended his condolences to those affected.
“In Australia, that was a terrible attack,” he said in brief remarks on Sunday afternoon (Monday AEDT).
“Eleven dead, 29 badly wounded, and that was an anti-Semitic attack, obviously. And I just want to pay my respects to everybody.
“It was a rough day.”
He said the US and Australia had a great relationship, and he’d sent a message of support to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Australian people.
